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Transitory communities
Yesterday I blogged about my journey back through the North West of England during the storm that hit the country the Wednesday. Then last night I took part in the unhangout for week 5 of #rhizo14, and began by saying … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Learning
Tagged #rhizo14, #ukstorm, communities, HE, Higher Education, leraning, teaching
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Reading, writing and forgetting
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.” Nietzsche, somewhere I often like to begin my writing with a quotation from a philosopher, and this one is particularly apt for this week’s #rhizo14 topic Is … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Philosophy, Reading, Wittgenstein, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, parrot sketch, Phaedrus, Plato, Tractatus, Wittgenstein
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Types of knowledge
If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false. Wittgenstein, On Certainty Section 205 There’s two rival epistemological theories which we teach to our first years: foundationalism and coherentism. I wonder if these might be helpful in … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, D&G, Philosophy, Rhizomes, Wittgenstein
Tagged #rhizo14, D&G, Descartes, epistemology, Quine
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I have the questions for all of your answers
Years ago (gosh, at least ten years, how shocking to realise), I ended up moderating a public Philosophy forum. It’s long gone now but I am still friends with many of my fellow moderators including the wonderful Andrew Jeffrey, who … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Academia, D&G, Learning, Philosophy, Plato, Rhizomes, Teaching, University
Tagged #rhizo14, HE, Nietzsche, Plato, uncertainty
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Rhizomatic mappings
Cath Ellis wrote a blog post about how the London Underground is rhizomatic. I love this and she’s right – it has multiple entry ways and no correct route. Indeed, if I am not in a hurry then I plan … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, D&G, Rhizomes
Tagged #rhizo14, D&G, Great Bear, Philosophy, Simon Patterson
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Rhizomatic music
I’ve been thinking a LOT about different ways of representing the rhizome recently. D&G talk a lot about nomads living in smooth space and making felt (not knitting!) and I wondered what they’d be listening to during all of that. … Continue reading
Enforcing Independence Part 2
I haven’t engaged much with the topic for week 2 of #rhizo14 which is about whether we can enforce independence because I’ve been too busy doing my own thing (haha!) and thinking about D&G. I’ve been reading blogs of other … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Learning, Rhizomes, Teaching
Tagged #rhizo14, Jigsaw, learning, scaffolding, Vygotsky
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Meaning versus inspiring
I’ve been thinking again about Cath Ellis’s blog post encouraging #rhizo14 participants to read D&G in the original and wondering if it really matters what an original meant when they wrote something, or whether it’s what it inspires in others … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, D&G, Reading, Wittgenstein, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, D&G, Reading, Wittgenstein, writing
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Enforcing Independence
Years ago when I was first a postgraduate I worked for a widening access and widening participation project called On Track. We’d go into FE colleges in teams of two (usually a PG and a UG) and run sessions for … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Rhizomes, Social Media
Tagged #rhizo14, independent learning, Rhizome
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Cheating as learning: the story so far
So that’s the end of the first week of #rhizo14. I’ve made new friends, thought of new things and had one of the most wonderfully inspiring weeks ever. As I said on Saturday night: @AnnGagne @davecormier @raulpacheco Buzzing with all … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Rhizomes, Social Media
Tagged #rhizo14, #rhizomes, D&G, Deleuze, nomads
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